Flower Vases

The Tulips Flower Vase is slim and white-silver, with small gold tulips at the neck: a vase for tulips in every sense, since tulips and calla lilies suit a tall, narrow form. The Modern Checkers Silver Flower Vase is a narrow, shield-like shape covered in a black and silver checkerboard, graphic enough to stand empty on a shelf. Other silver pieces set dark, rough, flame-like relief against smooth polished surfaces.

The Architecture vases have deep, diamond-faceted walls that break the light into planes. In silver they are crisp and cool; the Architecture Copper Flower Vase turns the same facets rosy and warm. Filled with flowers in the middle of a dining table, a copper vase gives the whole setting an evening glow, and it sits naturally beside our Table centerpieces.

The third family is the most playful. The UFO vases by designer Attanasio Mazzone are hooded little figures with stubby arms and an open face, in copper and gold tones as well as bright blue, purple, yellow, orange, red and white. The Blobware vases by designer Jordi Veytia are soft, swollen egg and drop shapes, each with a single deep fold; the Gold Blobware II Vase is the warmest of them.

These modern vases need no flowers to work. On a console or a bookshelf they read as small sculptures, and in a group they make a cheerful line of colour, which is why they also belong on our Colorful sculptures page. Among decorative vases, they are the ones most likely to make someone smile.